1. Thanks to LF and I, right? 🙂 You were still “Evtach” when I wrote that post, though.
2. Sorry about that – AFAIK stands for “as far as I know.”
3. What I meant was that if someone’s parents named her “Batya,” it would not be “authentic” to call her “Bisya.”
4. I was responding to this:
Don’t do Batel- Bat’l is better, as in Bat’l B’shishim.
I’m not quite sure what you meant by it, but in Hebrew, it is simply incorrect to spell the name “Bat’el” as beis-tes-lamed.
I was pointing out that “batel” as in “batel b’shishim” is not really supposed to be pronounced like the English “bottle,” as in
“bottle of beer.”
Also, in English, I think you can write out any Name of Hashem however you want to – it will never become sheimos.
(If I’m wrong about that, someone please correct me!)